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In 1873, Leland Stanford, a former California Governor, enlisted Eadweard Muybridge to help him win a bet regarding a horse’s gallop. Stanford firmly believed that all four feet of a galloping horse were off the ground and was determined to prove it. To confirm this belief, Muybridge placed stationary cameras along a section of the…

In blue and yellow, Blockbuster advertises movies to everyone who drives by. The movie ticket as the logo draws people in. Every person who enters the store is greeted by a, “How are you doing?” from John the employ who checks people out when they have found their evening entertainment. John has been working at…

1.) Chastain, Emma.  Literature. New York: Spark Publishing, 2004.             This book is a collection of a simple narratives regarding variety of stories which is known in the diligence of literature. In the section specifically designated for the written work of Kate Chopin “The Awakening” a short summary with regards to the book is provided…

There are more then 10,000 species of ants and they all share the same common traits. The traits that they share are three body sections. The body sections are the head, thorax, and abdomen. The head contains a relatively large brain. It also had the eyes, antennae, and the mandibles (which are shaped differently depending…

Remember The Titans, is a movie based on actual events that occurred in 1971. Remember the Titans is about how a black high school and a white high school were closed, and the students from both were forced to attend the same school under federal mandate to integrate. In the movie the football team is…

Born on October, 15th, 1926, Michael Foucault grew to become one of the 20th century’s most renowned philosophers. He was also a notable historian, sociologist and a notable critic and author who not only criticized social institutions such as; the prison system, or the existing political structures but also served to define human sexuality and…

Large Fish is a narrative about a adult male. Edward Bloom. who is a brilliant narrative Teller. and his son—William Bloom—who has a score against these narratives. The film was directed by Tim Burton in 2003. which he based off the Big Fish book written in 1988 by Daniel Wallace. Throughout the film we see…

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted in many ways. By focusing on their endings and on the character of Kurtz, contrasting the meanings of the horror in each media emerges. In the novel the horror reflects Kurtz tragedy of…

            Harold and Maude is a morbid love story about a young man and a 79-year-old woman.  Harold enjoys faking suicide to shock his mother, however, Harold has faked his death about sixteen times, so it no longer fazes his mother.  She ignores it.             When Harold crashes a funeral, something he does on a…

Subsequent to the First World War in 1924, the De Stijl group, known for their simplicity of forms, designed a free flowing private residence for Mrs Truus Schroder Schrader. The Schroder house incorporates horizontal and vertical planes that are colored in indistinct red, blue, yellow, white, and black, creating an environment where Mondrian’s fine art…